aroid - What does it mean?

Noun

(en-noun)

(informal) Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics.

* {{quote-book|year=1920|author=Sir Harry Johnston|title=Mrs. Warren's Daughter|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=They made their way slowly to the great Palm House and thence up twisty iron steps to a nook like a tree refuge in New Guinea, among palm boles and extravagant aroid growths. }}

* {{quote-news|year=1997|date=March 7|author=Jerry Sullivan|title=Field & Street|work=Chicago Reader citation

|passage=Jack-in-the-pulpit is the only other aroid native to our part of the world.}}

* 2000 , Anton Ivancic, Vincent Lebot, The Genetics and Breeding of Taro , page 15,

The majority of aroids are climbers and epiphytes of tropical rainforests.